Privacy Policy
Last updated: September 29, 2026
Chiles and Smoke (“we,” “us,” or “our”) operates ChilesAndSmoke.com (the “Site”). This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect when you visit or interact with the Site, how that information may be used or shared, and the choices available to you.
By using the Site, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
Information We Collect
Depending on how you interact with the Site, we may collect information that you provide directly to us as well as information collected automatically when you use the Site.
Information You Provide
You may voluntarily provide personal information when you:
- Subscribe to our email newsletter.
- Submit a contact form or communicate with us.
- Leave a comment or interact with content on the Site.
- Participate in a promotion, giveaway, survey, or other Site feature.
This information may include your name, email address, and any other information you choose to provide.
Information Collected Automatically
When you visit the Site, we and our service providers may automatically collect certain information about your device and use of the Site. This may include:
- Your IP address.
- Browser and device type.
- Operating system.
- Referring website or source.
- Pages and content you visit.
- Dates and times of visits.
- Links or features you interact with.
- General geographic information derived from your IP address.
- Other information collected through cookies, pixels, tags, and similar technologies.
How We Use Information
We may use information collected through the Site to:
- Operate, maintain, and improve ChilesAndSmoke.com.
- Understand how visitors find and use our recipes and other content.
- Respond to questions, comments, and requests.
- Send newsletters, recipes, product news, promotions, and other communications to subscribers.
- Measure the performance of our content and marketing.
- Display and measure advertising.
- Detect fraud, abuse, security threats, or other harmful activity.
- Comply with legal obligations and protect our rights.
Cookies and Similar Technologies
The Site and our service providers may use cookies, pixels, tags, and similar technologies to operate the Site, remember preferences, understand how visitors use the Site, measure traffic and performance, and provide and measure advertising.
Cookies may be used for purposes including:
- Essential website functionality.
- Analytics and performance measurement.
- Remembering preferences.
- Advertising and measuring advertising performance.
- Understanding how visitors interact with content.
Your browser may allow you to block or delete cookies. Doing so may affect the functionality of certain portions of the Site.
Additional privacy controls may also be available depending on your location.
Analytics
We may use analytics services, including Google Analytics, to understand how visitors interact with ChilesAndSmoke.com.
Google Analytics may collect information such as your device information, browser information, IP address, pages visited, referring pages, and interactions with the Site through cookies and similar technologies. We use this information to better understand our audience, measure Site performance, and improve our content.
You can learn more about how Google handles information collected through its services by reviewing Google’s Privacy Policy:
Advertising
CMI Marketing, Inc., d/b/a Raptive (“Raptive”) is a service provider of this Site for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and Raptive will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes.
To learn more about Raptive’s data usage, visit:
Raptive and its advertising partners may use cookies and similar technologies to provide, personalize, measure, and improve advertising displayed on the Site.
Depending on applicable law, certain advertising-related disclosures of personal information may be considered a “sale,” “sharing,” or use for targeted advertising even when personal information is not exchanged for money.
Visitors may have the right to opt out of certain advertising-related uses of their personal information. Raptive provides privacy controls on the Site, including a Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information option for applicable visitors.
The Raptive advertising disclosure above reflects Raptive’s current required publisher language. Raptive Support
Email Communications
If you subscribe to the Chiles and Smoke email list, we may use your email address and information about your interactions with our emails to send recipes, cooking tips, product news, promotions, discounts, and other Chiles and Smoke content.
You can unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time by using the unsubscribe link included in our emails.
We may use an email service provider to manage subscriptions, deliver emails, and measure email performance.
Affiliate Links
Chiles and Smoke may participate in affiliate marketing programs. Some links on the Site may be affiliate links, which means we may earn a commission if you make a purchase after following one of those links, at no additional cost to you.
Affiliate partners and retailers may use cookies or similar technologies to determine whether a purchase or other action originated from a link on ChilesAndSmoke.com.
Our use of affiliate links does not affect the price you pay for a product.
Sponsored Content and Brand Partnerships
From time to time, Chiles and Smoke may work with brands on sponsored content, recipes, videos, or other partnerships.
Sponsored relationships and material connections are disclosed where applicable. Compensation or a business relationship does not guarantee a positive review or recommendation.
Comments
If you leave a comment on the Site, we may collect the information entered into the comment form as well as technical information used to help detect spam and abuse.
Information you submit publicly as part of a comment may be visible to other visitors.
Please avoid including sensitive or confidential personal information in public comments.
Contact Forms
When you contact us through a form on the Site, we may collect your name, email address, subject, message, and any other information you choose to provide.
We use this information to respond to your inquiry and maintain appropriate business records.
Third-Party Links and Embedded Content
ChilesAndSmoke.com may contain links to third-party websites and services.
Articles may also contain embedded content, such as videos, social media posts, or other media. Embedded content from another website may behave in substantially the same way as if you visited that website directly.
Third-party websites and services have their own privacy practices. Chiles and Smoke is not responsible for the privacy practices, security, or content of websites or services that we do not control.
We encourage you to review the privacy policies of third-party services you use.
Social Media
Chiles and Smoke maintains profiles and shares content through third-party social media platforms.
If you interact with Chiles and Smoke through a social media platform, the platform may collect information about that interaction according to its own privacy policies and settings.
How We Share Information
We may disclose information to service providers that help us operate ChilesAndSmoke.com and our business. These may include providers that assist with:
- Website hosting and infrastructure.
- Analytics.
- Advertising.
- Email marketing.
- Spam and security protection.
- Website functionality and performance.
- Customer communications.
We may also disclose information when required by law, legal process, or government request, or when reasonably necessary to protect Chiles and Smoke, our visitors, or others.
If Chiles and Smoke is involved in a sale, merger, acquisition, restructuring, or transfer of some or all of its business or assets, information may be transferred as part of that transaction.
Data Retention
We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, including providing services, maintaining business records, complying with legal obligations, resolving disputes, preventing fraud, and enforcing agreements.
Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information and the reason it was collected.
Your Privacy Rights
Depending on where you live, applicable privacy laws may provide you with certain rights regarding your personal information.
These rights may include the right to:
- Request access to or information about personal information collected about you.
- Request correction of inaccurate personal information.
- Request deletion of certain personal information.
- Obtain a portable copy of certain personal information.
- Opt out of certain uses of personal information for targeted advertising.
- Opt out of activities that applicable law defines as the sale or sharing of personal information.
These rights are not absolute and may apply only in certain circumstances.
We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling certain requests. Where permitted by applicable law, you may also designate an authorized agent to submit a request on your behalf.
We will not discriminate against you for exercising privacy rights provided by applicable law.
Global Privacy Control and Privacy Choices
Certain privacy laws require websites to recognize qualifying browser-based opt-out signals, including Global Privacy Control (“GPC”).
Where required by applicable law and supported by our systems or service providers, qualifying GPC signals may be treated as a request to opt out of certain sale, sharing, or targeted advertising activities for the browser or device sending the signal.
Raptive also provides privacy controls for advertising activities conducted through its advertising services. Raptive Support
Children’s Privacy
ChilesAndSmoke.com is intended for a general audience and is not directed toward children under 13.
We do not knowingly collect personal information directly from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided personal information to us, please contact us so that we can take appropriate action.
Data Security
We take reasonable measures to protect personal information collected through the Site. However, no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
Please avoid submitting sensitive or confidential information through unsecured communications.
International Visitors
Our Site and service providers may process or store information in countries other than the country where you live.
Where required by applicable law, appropriate safeguards may be used when personal information is transferred internationally.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our Site, business practices, technology, service providers, or applicable laws.
When this policy is updated, the “Last updated” date at the top of the page will be revised.
Contact
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or would like to make a privacy-related request, please contact:
Chiles and Smoke
Brad Prose
Email: [email protected]
You may also contact us on directly through our page: https://www.chilesandsmoke.com/contact-us/